Around the Block: The Business of a Neighborhood
New York: Harcourt Brace, c1997. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 325, illus., rough spot to top right of front flyleaf. More
New York: Harcourt Brace, c1997. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 325, illus., rough spot to top right of front flyleaf. More
New York, N.Y. The Macmillan Press Ltd., 1977. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. xix, [1], 239, [3] pages. Illustrations. Some wear to dust jacket edges Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper--Inscription reads For Jim, Ideal host for a scholarly Bunbury--from Rodney. Chiveden 1978. Includes List of Plates (15 black and white plates between pages 72 and 73), Preface, Chronological Table, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. This is the first critical study to consider in detail everything that Oscar Wilde wrote. The author argues that Wilde's adaptations of various literary genres and styles represent his attempts to define his artistic identity, and also his relationship with a society that he longed and expected to conquer but found increasingly hostile to everything that he most valued. Wilde's principal solution to these two related issues was the creation of the "dandy'', but this was only one of the many forms by which the artist's personality might assert its individual nature. Rodney Shewan was a Lecturer in English Literature at Stanford University in Britain. He was the co-editor with Peter Stansky of the series The Aesthetic Movement and the Arts and Crafts Movement. More
Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1986. First? Edition. First? Printing. 23 cm, 66, wraps, illus., slight wear and soiling to covers, small ding at top edge. More
Comrades in America, Inc., 1993. Second Edition [stated]. Third printing [stated]. Trade paperback. xiii, [1], 124, [6] pages. Signed "Yakov" on half-title page. Yakov Naumovich Pokhis, better known as Yakov Smirnoff (born 24 January 1951), is a Soviet-born American comedian, actor and writer. After emigrating to the United States in 1977, Smirnoff began performing as a stand-up comic. He reached his biggest success in the mid-to-late 1980s, appearing in several films and the television sitcom vehicle What a Country!. His comic persona was of a naive immigrant from the Soviet Union who was perpetually confused and delighted by life in the United States. His humor combined a mockery of life under Communism and of consumerism in the United States, as well as word play caused by misunderstanding of American phrases and culture, all punctuated by the catchphrase, "And I thought, 'What a country!'" The collapse of Communism starting in 1989, and the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, brought an end to Smirnoff's widespread popularity, although he continued to perform. In 1992, he bought his own theater in Branson, Missouri, where he performed his last show on December 3, 2015. In the late 1990s he retooled his stand-up act to focus on the differences between men and women, and on solving problems within relationships. Smirnoff now teaches a course titled "The Business of Laughter" at Missouri State University and at Drury University. More
New York: Scribner, 2012. First Scribner Hardcover Edition [stated]. Sixth printing [stated]. Hardcover. ix, [3], 962, [2] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Signed by the author on the title page. DJ has minor wear and soiling. DJ states National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, and 10 Best Books New York Times Book Review 2012. This is a very heavy book which if sent outside of the United States would require an additional shipping payment. Contents include Son; Deaf; Dwarfs; Down Syndrome; Autism; Schizophrenia; Disability; Prodigies; Rape, Crime; Transgender; and Father. Andrew Solomon (born October 30, 1963) is a writer on politics, culture and psychology, who lives in New York City and London. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, and other publications on a range of subjects, including depression, Soviet artists, the cultural rebirth of Afghanistan, Libyan politics, and Deaf politics. Solomon's book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finalist for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and was included in The Times list of one hundred best books of the decade. Honors awarded to Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity include the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Media for a Just Society Award of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Wellcome Book Prize. Solomon is a professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University Medical Center,[17] a lecturer at Yale School of Medicine,[18] and a past President of PEN American Center. More
New York: Times Books, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 370, Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Times Books, c1989. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 370, notes, index, some wear to DJ edges, some soiling to fore-edge. More
New York: New American Library [A Signet Book], 1950. Later printing. Mass market paperback. 174, [2] pages. Cover has some wear and soiling. Frank Morrison Spillane (March 9, 1918 – July 17, 2006), better known as Mickey Spillane, was an American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. During World War II Spillane enlisted in the Army Air Corps, becoming a fighter pilot and a flight instructor. He received an Edgar Allan Poe Grand Master Award in 1995. Spillane's novels went out of print, but in 2001, the New American Library began reissuing them. The Signet paperbacks displayed dramatic front cover illustrations. Lou Kimmel created the cover paintings for My Gun Is Quick, Vengeance Is Mine, One Lonely Night and The Long Wait. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. [10]. 342 pages. DJ in plastic sleeve. In Saigon during the last stages of the Vietnam war, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go badly wrong for him. Robert Anthony Stone (August 21, 1937 – January 10, 2015) was an American novelist, journalist, and college professor. He was five times a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, which he did receive in 1975 for his novel Dog Soldiers. Time magazine included this novel in its list 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005. Stone was also twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and once for the PEN/Faulkner Award. During his lifetime Stone received material support and recognition including Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships, the five-year Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature, and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Stone also offered his own support and recognition of writers during his lifetime, serving as Chairman of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation Board of Directors for over thirty years. Stone's best known work is characterized by action-tinged adventures, political concerns and dark humor. Many of his novels are set in unusual, exotic landscapes of raging social turbulence, such as the Vietnam War; a post-coup violent banana republic in Central America; Jim Crow-era New Orleans, and Jerusalem on the verge of the millennium. More
New York: Bantam Books, c1990. 25 cm, 370, DJ has several tears and worn spots. More
Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014. Third Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Format is approximately 5.5 inches by 8.25 inches. 224 pages. Foreword by Sean Hannity. Notes. Signed by the author with sentiment. Reads Never Give Up! Cal Thomas. John Calvin Thomas (born 2 December 1942) is an American syndicated columnist, author and radio commentator. During the 1960s and early 1970s he worked as a reporter at NBC News. During a hiatus in his undergraduate education, he joined the U.S. Army, and served at the Armed Forces Radio in New York. His program on CNBC was nominated for a CableACE Award in 1995. His column, which began in 1984, is syndicated by Tribune Content Agency. Thomas joined Fox News as a political contributor in 1997. He was a panelist on Fox News Watch, a Fox News Channel program critiquing media coverage, and until September 2005 hosted After Hours with Cal Thomas on the same network. He also gives a daily radio commentary, syndicated by Salem Radio Network. From 2005 until the end of 2015, Thomas had been a columnist for USA Today, where he wrote articles with friend and political opposite, Bob Beckel, in the style of "point–counterpoint". Thomas has written extensively about political issues and he supports, among other things, many American positions related to Israel. He has written 10 books, including Blinded By Might, that discussed, among other things, the role of the Moral Majority in American politics of the 1980s. Thomas was vice president of the Moral Majority from 1980 to 1985. More
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1993. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. [8], 200 pages. Some soiling along edge front edge. Includes Introduction; Preliminary Mappings: Modernism and Genre Fiction; Part 1: The Emergence of he modern detective Hero; Part II: Empire and Espionage: The "Great Game Begins; Part III: Modernists and Detectives; Part IV: Postmodern Crime Fiction. Also contains Conclusion: Postmodern Fictions of Crime; Works Cited; and Index. Jon Thompson is a Professor of English at North Carolina State University where he teaches courses in twentieth-century/contemporary American and British literature. He maintains a particular interest in contemporary poetry and poetics. He did his Ph.D. at LSU and then came as an Assistant Professor to the English Department at NCSU. Before the Ph.D., he took a B.A. and an M.A. at University College, Dublin (his Master's thesis was on the problem of communication in Robert Creeley's poetry). His current work comes out of his career as a poet, critic and editor. He is the founding editor of the international online journal Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, launched in 2001 and also the editor of the single-author poetry series, Free Verse Editions, launched in 2005. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1996. First Printing. Hardcover. 25 cm, 210 pages. Frontis illus., index, some sticker residue to DJ. Signed by the author on bookplate on front endpaper. More
New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, c1996. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 210, frontis illus., index. Inscribed by the author. More
Rocklin, CA: Prima Pub. c1992. First Printing. Hardcover. 23 cm, 341 pages. Slight wear and soiling to DJ. Signed by the author. More
New York: William Morrow & Company, 1965. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 242, [2] pages. Contains an Introduction by J. Edgar Hoover. Illustrations appear between pages 112-113. Bookplate inside the front cover personalized to Richard and Barbara Mullens. Inscribed by the author; inscription reads "To Rich & Barbara, My Far Out Cousin. All Best, Andy." Some soiling to dust jacket and several tears and chips. Bookplate of previous owner pasted inside front board. Topics covered include Crime Most Vile, Bandits, Ltd., Cloak and Rusty Dagger, Dark Blue Yonder, and Civil Rights and Wrongs. Also includes Afterword by J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Agents Killed in Line of Duty, FBI Directors and Attorneys General Since the Founding of the FBI in 1908, and an Index. Andrew F. Tully Jr. (October 24, 1914 - September 27, 1993) was an American war reporter, writer and columnist. He wrote some 18 fiction and non-fiction books, translated in multiple languages. As a war reporter for the Boston Traveler, he was one of the few American journalists to enter Berlin with the Russians in April 1945. He wrote the column Capital Fare from 1961 until 1987. More
New York: McGraw-Hill, c1980. First Printing. 24 cm, 288, DJ soiled, scuffed, frayed, and small tears at edges, top edge soiled. More
Washington, DC: Department of the Treasury, 1996. 66, wraps, illus., diagrams, glossary, slight wear and soiling to covers. P3312.2 (9/96). More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1995. 27 cm, 32, wraps, illus., two staples removed from cover, mailing label removed from rear cover. More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1995. 27 cm, 32, wraps, illus., staple holes in front cover. Includes index for 1995. More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1996. 27 cm, 32, wraps, illus., date stamped on front cover, staple holes in front cover, mailing label residue on rear cover. More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1996. 27 cm, 32, wraps, illus., staple holes in front cover, residue of mailing label on rear cover. More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1996. 27 cm, 32, wraps, illus., staple holes in front cover, residue of mailing label on rear cover, date stamped on front cover. More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1997. 27 cm, 32, wraps, illus., two staples removed from front cover, mailing label removed from rear cover. More
Washington, DC: FBI, 1997. 27 cm, 32, wraps, illus., two staples removed from front cover. Contains an article on 25 years of the FBI Academy. More